Officers said the woman told them she and Clemon were at a sports bar in the 200 block of Southwest Port St Lucie Boulevard in Port St. Lucie, when Clemon started to argue with another person.

The woman calmed Clemon, and they went home. When they were inside their apartment, Clemon began arguing with her about not standing up for him at the bar, she told police.

The argument escalated, and the woman tried to call 911, officers said, but Clemon grabbed and broke her phone. When she tried to run out of the apartment, he grabbed her by her hair and pulled her across the ground outside of the apartment, she told police.

Police arriving at the apartment complex said the woman's lip was cut, her shirt and shorts were ripped, and she was wet and covered in grass.

The woman told officers she no longer wanted to stay in the apartment with Clemon and wanted to get her car keys from him and go to her mother's house. She also told officers she thought Clemon might have left the apartment and gone to his mother's home because she couldn't find him.

Police left the apartment complex, heading to Clemon's mother's home to look for him. Soon after they left, the woman called officers and told them that when she went inside the apartment to pick up a bag, Clemon was there and attacked and choked her again.

Officers returned and arrested Clemon on a domestic abuse charge and an obstruction charge. He was taken to the Martin County Jail, where he remains as of Thursday afternoon on a $100,000 bail.

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Every year the Florida Department of Law Enforcement collects data for seven areas of crime. According to their statistics, crime in Martin County rose 14.6 percent overall from 2016 to 2017. GINNY BEAGAN/TCPALM
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